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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29
WHOLE NO. 799.

The people of Frostburg, hopelessly
divided on many questions, are almost
unit against making hero out of
our colored fire-bug.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

INSURANCE companies will be cheer
ed by the intelligence that an Ale
gany county jury has decided that a
confessed incendiary is not guilty.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

THE Mayor and Council should put
at least forty-nine more night police
men on the force, and confine their
promenades to the thoroughfares
fronted by the stables, coal houses,
pig pens, and other outbuildings.
Their noses would keep them awake.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

Married-On January 26, 1887. by Rev
G. A. Schwedes, Mr.. ADAM WAGNER, ol
Borden Shaft, and Miss KATE FISHERMAN, OF
Mt Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

THE Erostburg correspondent of the
Homecoming Rerieso foreshadows, as a
de,nier resort, that he will fall back on
his manhood. That is exactly the
thing to do. 1t settles disputes at
once, and relieves the community of a
long shiver preceding the cataclysm.
But for the Lords sake, don't over
come us with a substitute from Barton,
or elsewhere.
The same to you, Workman.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

WHEN the penitentiary yawned for
William Williams it "reckoned with
out its host" A case of lost motion,
or no bite, no chaw.s
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

AFTER Mr.. Semmes' earnest and
protracted effort to impeach the late
panel he is doubtless surprised at the
great success which grew out of his
failure.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

In the imperative mood the editor
of the Cumberland Times writes his
paper from Washington
Here is a question for true and patriotic
craftsmanship and here is an issue upon
which we should all meet face to face and fear
not. The Constitution must be changed! AS
Ben Butler said SIX years ago at Montgomery
Blair's dinner table in my presence, MARY
lands present constitution is relic of fossil
ization that would ornament the British
museum and do credit to the mari pits of New
jersey"
Much as the JOURNAL has favored
new Constitution it jumps with pain
to the other extreme.
But, hold! There is an awe-struck
whisper current that General Bradley
T. johnson opposes it
With great earnestness, therefore,
we trust the Times editor was afflicted
for the time being with an unreliable
memory, or guilty of heterophemy.
In spite of abundant and unimpeach-
able evidence of the fact that William
Williams confessed setting fire to sew
eral buildings, an Allegany county
jury would not take his word for it.
From local standpoint this finding
is the climax of foolery and injustice.
Generally speaking, it is solemnly
suggestive of the danger of longer trust
ing vital issues to determination by the
jury system-a system which develops
a growing concern for the liberty of
the criminal, and less and less regard
for the safety of property and people.
1t is this sort of thing which has in
many places driven the populace to
punish crime.
1t is this sort of discrimination that
provides groundwork for communism,
anarchy, nihilism, those hateful foes of
law, order, government,
1t is this sort of Judgment which
brings under popular disrespect the
court and its fine-cut analysis into
contempt the lawyer and his insolence
into ridicule the juror, whose highest
qualification is sworn incompetency.
In the present instance, at least, the
uame of justice, primitively glorious,
is bathed in shame and made byword
of humiliation. A culprit is loosed to
run unreined his desolating course over
a betrayed community, while men and
women. blinded by the flashing impos-
ture, vainly lift their scorched eyes to
see what it means.
Hence, whether it be decree come
down from the hauteur of the bench
through the peerage of the panel, or
the answer of the jury'to some refined
fiction in the rules of evidence, there
can be no doubt that it is one of the
most dangerous endorsements of crime
ever imposed upon community under
the efigy of justice.
Though blind, the goddess sees eye
to eye with guilt; or, changing the
figure, the Cyclops of leaden heel
crushes under his tread the peace and
rest of the helpless, and with iron hand
forges new fears for the innocent.
None but those who have groveled
along under an infection so awful can
fifty measure the plummet-line with
which nineteen-twentieths of our peo-
rle have fathomed the deep damnation
of this verdict. Hell-fre itself is but
one step below our doom.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

Accident.--Edwad O'Brien was badly
hurt in Franklin mine Friday afternoon OF
last week. He will recover.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

THE court house cost about $65, 900.
1t is handsome ablishment, and he
who henceforth has set out to burn a
town need not enter there and leave
the angel hope at the bottom of the
stairway.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

ORDERED, This Sth day of January, 1887,
Othat the second Monday of April next at
10 O'Clock a. m, is hereby fixed as the time
at which James Darnley, insolvent petitioner,
shall appear in the Circuit Court for Allegany
county to answer such interrogatories or allie
cations as his creditors, endorsers or sureties
may propose or allege against him, and that
J. Semmes Devecmon, permanent trustee for
the benefit of the creditors of said petitioner,
shall, prior to the said second Monday OF
April next, give at least forty days notice OF
the day so fixed and Of the purport of this
order by weekly publication in some newspa-
per printed in Allegany county, Md.
True copy. Test: THEO. LUMAN, Clerk.
J. SEMMES DEVECMON,
Jan l5-6t Permanent Trustee.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

Personal.-Homer Mcneil, Of Oskaloosa,
Iowa, visited Thomas McNeill, his uncle,
this week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

You expect So, 60 or 65 cents, eh 7
Yes.
Well, why don't you expect flour at
81, $3.50 or $50? Or meat at s, or 6
cents
If expectation, or striking will bring
the one, it will fetch the other too.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

WORKINGMEN and others who own
their homes are advised that if they
want to protect them, they must do it
themselves. A blockhouse in every
back yard, with turret and Gatling
gun, will be fine defensive arrange
ment, but the extreme fun of the
thing will arrive to the fellow who has
to work every day and stay up every
night to steer the turret so that the
shot may be planted where they will do
the most good. This is a glorious land,
and getting to be more soto the fell
low who rates his wages at 500 per fire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29
fremont House.
GEORGE L. LAYMAN, Proprietor,
South Mechanic ST., Cumberland, Md.

TNHIS HOTEL has been reftted and refur-
i nished with everything convenient for
permanent and transient bOarders. Excellent
table Good stabling and yard for wagons
and buggies. Everything will be properly
cared for by the genial host, who hopes espec-
ially to enjoy the patronage of his numerous
friends in the surrounding country. May %
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

THE devil, it appears, was on speak
ing terms with William Williams. In
fact, if William is to be believed in
spite of the verdict, the intimacy was
of that deep, profound, bosom friend,
never-go- back ON you fashion that the
devil got his chum "into trouble" and
then into Jail. But tie way the old
chump, not chum, got walloped on the
last round made the angels weep tears
that started not when, as Lucifer, he
was whipped o out of heaven and became
the highest minister of justice in the
empire of hell.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

THE Homecoming Rerieoc is sitting
square on its basement when it says:
Billy Williams, the colored fire bug of
Frostbug, has been acquitted of crime he
confessed having committed. 1t may be ac-
coiding to law, but the Reyiew fails to discover
where the justice lies. The Frostburg
people have good reason to feel disappointed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

Stewards Pills cure headache.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

IT is no use to be astounded.
The colossal wonder of the whole
matter is-not that Williams was
acquitted, but that he was indicted.
The evidence in court against him
was stronger, so far as can be judged,
than that produced before the grand
jury.
And, presumably, the latter body
heard but one side of the story.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

ONE or two newspapers have lately
discussed Criminals as Moral Luna
ties"
1t is to be questioned whether the
term, ''moral," in the foregoing
quotation is legitimate. 1t would be
just as easy to speak of lunatics as
religious, only this-it would be step
farther from the truth.
More than matter of terms, it is to
be doubted whether lunatic of any
denomination can be in the legal
sense criminal. 1.-THE merry luna.
tic,' said Hawkesworth, sis never
kind" Hence, in the nature of things
he is unkind.
The more reason, therefore, is fur
nished for taking care of the lunatic-
for exempting the public also from his
freaks. "The consequences of murder
committed by a maniac" said Smollett,
"may be as pernicious to society as the
most criminal assassination,
And the same author has declared
with greater wisdom that it would not
be unreasonable "to divest all lunatics
of the privileges of insanity, and in
cases of enormity subject them to the
common penalties of the law"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-01-29

THE JOURNAL is not at all advised,
but in its judgment those who expect
55, 60 or 65 cents per ton will be dis.
appointed.
If there were any ground for such
expectation they could as nationally
anticipate 81 per ton. Let fancy
have rein and the price for mining
cannot be limited.
But facts should be fairly stated and
just as fairly considered. The COM
panies have shown on two notable
occasions that they are the masters as
we'll as the owners of this field, and
with experience to guide they are
stronger now, morally and financially,
to suspend work than ever before.
They are constantly prepared for scar.
Their contracts are stipulated to cover
endorsements from strikes. For
many years this was not the case, and
men occasionally succeeded by taking
advantage of delivery necessities.
But that day is past. The companies
have headed off all enterprises for
getting advanced wages ON that basis.
These are facts, and one does not
have to be company man or paper
to state them or believe them.
More than this the great majority
Of men in this region knoso these state
ments to be true.
The small minority don't want it
known.
And right there is the issue between
tho TOIvpNAT ond q faup raoplo
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
NEyvS OF rEH5; DAY.

Ex.Congressman Asa H. Glover died at
Georgetown, Ky, yesterday, after liuger-
ing illness. from heart disease, aged ~.
In the British House of Commons yester.
day, DR.. Tanner apologized for the expires.
sion he had used to MIR. Long and the incl
dent ended.
The Paris Figaro says it believes that the
negotiations between Germany and the Vat
lean for the Communication Of Alsace Lor-
raine have collapsed, the Pope refusing TO
forbid the use of French in the seminaries OF
the province.
The Bulgarian delegates who were sent
TO notify Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha of his election to the Bulgarian throne
and to urge his acceptance, are leaving Wen
ma. They are disappointed with the result OF
their mission. 1t is the general opinion in
Vienna that Prince Ferdinand will formally
decline TO occupy the throne.
Bishop w. f. Adams, rector of Holy
Trinity Church at Vicksburg, mas been
officially notified that q majority OF the
bishops and standing committees OF the
Episcopal Church had assented to his cleo
ton to the bshopric of Easton, Diocese of
MARYLAND. He will leave for Easton the
first of next week, and will be followed by
his family in short time.
Judge Wallace, in the United States Cir
cult Court yesterday in New York gave de-
cision in the case of the American Bell Tele-
phone Company against the Globe Tele-
phone Company, to restrain the defendant
from infringing on the patent granted to
Alexander Graham Bell, OH March I, 1876
Judge Wallace granted the permanent in
junction asked for by the Bell Telephone
Company.
NJ. De Lesseps presided at the meeting
of the shareholders of the Panama Canal
Company in Paris yesterday. Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Brazil, was present. The annual
report of the company showed d decrease in
the former confidence that the canal would
be opened in 1889, but expressed hope
that connection between the Atlantic and
Pacific would then exist across the Isthmus
of Panama, and that the works would be
completed soon afterwards.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
Trnin AtinclIed.

ST.. LOUIS, July 22.-Trainmen of the
andalia train due here at 7:30 o'clock last
.'ght but which did not arrive until be
'yeen twelve and one O'Clock this morning
"a port that at Long Point, this side of In
annapolis, Conductor Phauiz discovered
EUR rough looking men on the rear plat
:orm OF the baggage car. He ordered them
of the car, but as the train started up they
got on the rear Of the tender where they
were again found when the train reached
Greenup crossing. This time they vera
forcibly elected from the train and they
moved away, but it appears they did not go
far, for as the train was passing clump of
bushes near the crossing they opened fire
from revolvars and sent some twenty bull.
lets whizzing through the baggage and ex
press cars and the passenger coaches. Luckily
nobody was hit but there were several mar
row escapes. The train was brought to
halt and backed up to the crossing and
short search made, but the miscreants were
not found. A posse of citizens was organ
lied at once however, and II systematic
search was begun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
Assassination.

BALLINGER, Tex, July 22.-News has
just reached here of the assassination of w.
H. Nichols, prominent sheep man, living
on the edge of Green county near Fort
Chanbourne, last Sunday. Mr.. Nichols was
aged forty years and single. He was living
with family named Mauderelle and en-
pioycd the male members to herd for him.
Sunday last young Mauderelle requested
Nichols to herd the llocks of which he
(Mauderelle) had charge while the latter
hunted for horse This Mr.. Nichols did,
and that was the last seen of him alive
That night the dog brought the sheep home
and Nichols was found the next afternoon,
having been shot in the back with a Win
chester, after which the murderer placed the
gun against the head of his victim, sending
bullet through the brain and literally
burning the face TO crisp.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
ALEX CAMBRIA
FRIDAY EVENING. JULY Do.

SOME OF the Washington newspapers
seem to he so put out by the result OF The
recent murder trial in this city that, in the
hurry of their denuncation OF the verdict
thew have actually failed to conceal the fac'
oftheir inability to standthe geographicaipart
of competitive civil service examinations, by
describing city SO near their own as Alex
andria. as in Fairfax county. Their feelings
are so wrought up on the subject that they
nortrav Alexandria as city possessing sll
perior advantages for the preparation Oh
murderous crimes, and where the maximum
enjoyment of such crimes can be attained
with the minimum of risk, so far as the law
is concerned. While newspaper yerdictS
are easily reached, they are by no means in
fallible. and are usually based upon ex parte
evidence. In the case referred to, the jury
were considerably above The average in IN
telligence aud fairness, and though the COM
munity from which they were taken, prevl.
Gus to the trial thought the accused parties
should be severely punished, they, after
hearing all the evidence on both sides, de-
cared them not guilty AS long as the jury
system shall prevail, the verdict of juries
should be sustained by law abiding people
But, of All the people in the country, those OF
Washington should have the least fault to
find wish vordiots rendered outside of that
CITY. for ,ha rpsaerogs acquittals there, in
GLIDING ttarr IN the safe burglary and star
ronts sves-. 10 the .Aca of apparently con-
ciusiys a4idencs fsr conviction, have
saLispst s,r tbs NATIONAL capital reputa-
ton hv sd .sea~c "..sishle in respect of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
VIRGINIA MEMS.

a. W. Sinclair, ESQ.,, late candidate for
Commonwealth Attorney OF Stafford, has
moved back 10 Prince William.
The board of trustees OF The State Female
Normal School, located at Farmville, have
elected John a Cunningham principal of
that institution, vice DR.. w. H. Ruflner, re-
signed.
John M. Langstou, colored. president CT
the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
near Petersburg, advocates the nomination
of Gov. Lee for the Vice Presidency.
Mr. Thomas W. Waller, former sheriff Of
Spolsylvania, is engaged as resident agent,
at Memphis, Tenn, of the Empire Soap Co.,
of st. Louis, Mo, and is doing fairly we'll in
his new position.
The hearing Of the cases of Nathan Kohn
and his niece, Emma Frankel, indicted at
Winchester. on the charge Of violating the
marriage laws of the State, has been post
poned until September court.
Soma wheat has been threshed in Clark
county, with fair turnout. The crop will
not exceed three-iourths ofan average. The
corn looks fairly well, all depending upon
the rains in the next four weeks.
The Potomac Baptist Association, 10 meet
al Leesburg next mouth, will be composed
of delegates FROM some City Baptist churches
in Loudoun and adjoining counties. Elk
tensive preparations are being made TO re-
ceive and entertain them.
The three weeks drought in the region
about Norfolk was broken yesterday by q
succession of heavy showers. making re-
freshing change in the temperature. 1t
was worth thousands OF dollars to the farm.
ers, whose corn and other crops we're burn
ing up.
Last Wednesday young man named
John Copeland, aged about twenty. one years,
OF Nansemond county, was caught by the
betting at a mill near Coresvile, where he
worked, and icing brought in contact with
the machinery was crushed so terribly that
he died in few minutes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
RAILWAY Agents. Convention.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July 22.-At the
evening session of the Railway Agents Con-
vention the report of the executive COM
mittee read showed the receipts to be 81, 344
and disbursements $l,3l2. The COM
mittee on constitution amid much laughter
asked for more time to prepare a report.
A committee of five was appointed to form
a mutual insurance company. The associa-
ton then proceeded to the election of Of
fceys, which resulted in the selection Of
L. a. Clark, of Columbus, Neb., as President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
July 90.

ROBERT GARRETT SUED.-Henry S. Ives
and George n. Stayner, of New York, have
sued Robert Garrett. They have COM
menced two actions in the Supreme Court,
and the summons in each was served upon
Mr.. Garrett last night at the Victoria Hotel
One action is for the specific performance
OH the part of Mr.. Garrett of contract
made between him and Henry S. Ives and
George H. Stayner for the delivery to the
last named at fixed sum controlling in.
terest in the stock of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, which carries with it both The tel
egraph and express companies. The other
suit is for pecuniary damages for breaking
this contract. The action on the part OF
Ives and Stayner was hastened on account
of Mr.. CARROTS contemplated departure for
Europe tomorrow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
Trou,,Ic Among the knights

LONDON, Ont, July 22.-The final session
of the district assembly knights of labor
was held last night. After lengthy dis
cussion on The subject of the separa.
ton of the Canada knights of labor
from the American body in the matter
of jurisdiction, resolution was passed
urging secession from The United States
General Assembly and the formation of q
general assembly for Canada, the latter
body to have complete and unrestricted
powers to adjudicate on all questions and
business connected with the order
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22

A LIBRARY FOR RAILROAD EMPLoTEs.-
Yesterday evening the new library for the
use of the employees of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad, provided for them at the
suggestion Of Mr.. II. H. Carter, the super
intendent, was formally opened by Mr.. d..
?. Mckeever. in the presence Of a number
of the men. 1t is located in the large rooms
in the northwest corner of the second floor
of the depot building in Washington, which
were formerly used by the Pullman Co.
The rooms have been carpeted and provided
with tables and chairs and on the walls are
handsome pictures, while on the sides are
neat book cases in which are over five hun
dred volumes. All the shelves have not as
yet been filed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
The Afghan Frontier.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 22.-The German
Gazette, speaking of the arrangement ar
rived at regarding the frontier of Afghanis'
tan says that Russias most Southern point
of the river ANU Daria will be Bossga,
which is about twenty versts below Knoia-
Saleh, on the old boundary between Afghan
istan and Bokhara. This territory will be
preserved intact. Russia obtains the whole
pasture district between the rivers Kushk
and Murghab.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22

A SUIT INVOLVING THE WHITE SULPHUR.
The case of William A. Stuart against the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs Compa-
ny is now on trial in the United States
Court at Parkersburg, W. Va, before Judges
Bond and Jackson. There is long array
of distinguished attorneys in the case, in
Guiding ex-Gov J. B. Jackson, of West Eir
GINA, and Judge VIM. ]. Robertson and
Judge Hunter H. Marshall, of Virginia. It
is a very important case. involving the own
ership of the White Sulphur Springs, and
is being contested with great ability on both
sides.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-22
Sllarp's Case.

New YORK, July 22-The argument to
make permanent the stay of proceedings in
the case of Jacob Sharp, which was to have
been heard by Judge Potter in the Supreme
Court Chambers, has been adjourned Until
Tuesday next. Burke Cochran has been re
tanned by Sharp to make the argument and
it was to give him time to make himself
familiar with the case and prepare his briefs
that the adjournment was granted.